Comments on: Kinda-Sorta Internet

By: Kendall

Kendall — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:23:47 +0000

But as the ad showed (the very commercial this page parodies), the NYTimes page was brought up and showed all advertisements – including flash adverts.

By: leeg

leeg — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:34:31 +0000

@dave:
“What does the New York Times use for ads and video content if it’s not Flash?”

But as Steve has shown with WebClip, he’s not interested in seeing the ads people put on web pages. This will turn out to be a bad position to take, if any positions on the Apple board ever get taken up by webad-mongering bigwhigs, such as the CEO of Google.

By: Martin Pilkington

Martin Pilkington — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:21:44 +0000

Flash would be essential for the web, how else are you going to get access to all the many flash based video systems? As for real, not having real player support would essentially rule out any sort of video/audio streaming from the BBC.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:38 +0000

Hold on a minute. What does the New York Times use for ads and video content if it’s not Flash? I’m sure I saw both of those in the iPhone adverts though I’m not quite geeky enough to go and check right now.

What was the other site they show? CNN or something? Same question there.

By: Doctor Fegg

Doctor Fegg — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:01:04 +0000

“Cingular would see a Flash player as potentially cannibalizing their not-insignifcant revenue from J2ME games.”

Uh? iPhone doesn’t have Java either.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:42:35 +0000

David: that’s a pretty freakin’ cool emulator :)

By: Joe Cheng

Joe Cheng — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:03:44 +0000

> Flash requires a runtime.
Runtime requires a license for OEM to install.
License requires $ paid by OEM to Adobe.

By: R2

R2 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:12:09 +0000

Flash requires a runtime.
Runtime requires a license for OEM to install.
License requires $ paid by OEM to Adobe.

Need I say more? Flash is also very specific to the platform it runs on, and Adobe is pushing FlashLite for Mobile.

Cingular would see a Flash player as potentially cannibalizing their not-insignifcant revenue from J2ME games.

I think it will be awhile before we see Flash, but it will come.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:28:25 +0000

RealAudio? Are you kidding me? I rarely run across anything that uses Real.

And Flash is on it’s way out. JavaScript is the way to go.

By: Manton Reece

Manton Reece — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:40:22 +0000

So true. A significant piece of the modern web doesn’t work well without Flash.

I wonder if Apple will build a YouTube app for the iPhone that uses the same special H.264 feed that they have for Apple TV.